The fines for violating the regulation's rules are attention-forcing (up to 4% of global turnover in the prior fiscal year).

The deadline for compliance is May 25, 2018, just 77 days from now.

Nearly every booth at every tradeshow I've been to in Europe during the last year or so features the GDPR in its promotional verbiage. (The image above is courtesy of the PORT.im booth at the PIE 2017 conference last November in London.)

Many (maybe all) the developers I know and work with are busy addressing the GDPR as a Big Issue.

All that compliance stuff must require a lot of new technical work.

So I'm looking to get some perspective on this from geeks doing that work, and from others who simply know about it and have useful tings to say. If you're in either group, please weigh in on the comment stream below. Thanks!